Forced to become a delicate companion of a paranoid lord

Drage is a large city located in the northwest of Sunset City. Xie Wei heard from fellow adventurers that according to the speed of the Colosseum convoy, it would take about ten days to reach Drage.

In the eastern region in early October, the daytime temperature is very comfortable. However, since it is the rainy season, traveling at this time may lead to heavy rain or torrential rain at any time.

Before leaving Sunset City, the Colosseum's convoy asked a stargazer to predict the weather. The first half of the journey was just as the stargazer had predicted, with clear skies and no rain, making it a good time to travel.

But on the afternoon of the fourth day, the sky suddenly darkened, and thick clouds covered the sky in an instant, followed by heavy rain accompanied by lightning and thunder.

Dense raindrops hit the carriage boxes, animal cages and the ground, making crackling sounds.

Xie Wei and Mason put up a layer of magical elemental barrier the moment the rain fell, so they were not soaked like the others.

Using a magic element barrier to avoid rain is a very luxurious behavior. Xie Wei's magic power is not enough, so he only maintained it for a while. He took out a large waterproof cloak from the system backpack and put it on, then put away the magic element barrier.

When Mason saw Xie Wei put away his magic elemental barrier, he thought Xie Wei wanted to save magic power, so he led his horse to his side, wanting to use his magic barrier to help him block the rain. However, before he could cover the man, a plant with huge leaves suddenly grew out of the little magician's hand.

[Penpen Leaf] is a magical plant in the Misty Forest. It is called Penpen Leaf because its leaves are shaped like an inverted wooden basin. The maximum diameter of Penpen Leaf can reach 3-4 meters. The leaves are flexible and not easy to break. Whether they are fresh leaves or dried leaves, they can play a waterproof role.

The petiole of the basin leaf grows in the center of the back of the leaf. Holding it in your hand feels like holding a huge upside-down wooden basin.

The diameter of the pot leaves grown by Xie Wei was about two meters. He fixed the petioles on the saddle to make a rain shelter for himself and the horse.

Mason looked at the rain shelter that Xie Wei had built, lowered his head and said to the little fur ball Luo Lai in his arms: "Xie is really comprehensive. We will definitely not suffer if we follow him."

Luo Lai nodded vigorously in agreement.

"Yeah!"

So Mason started his daily advice again, "Thank you, come with me to Bellagio, my friend is really awesome." After he said this, Luo Lai in his arms whispered.

"Uncle Asher said that we can't go to places that require more than two days of flight to reach, because he can't hear when Xiaomei blows the whistle."

Mason stuffed Luo Lai into his clothes and threatened angrily, "What he said doesn't count. Do you listen to me or him? If you listen to him, I won't take you out to play next time." After that, he stuffed the bone whistle hanging around his neck back into his clothes.

The bone whistle is used by kids like Luo Lai to call their parents after they transform into human form. He doesn't know how to blow it.

"Sorry Mason, I need to think about it again." Xie Wei's gaze fell on the distance and lingered for a moment.

It was raining so hard that it was difficult to see the iron cage that held Sal.

"It's okay. You can think about it slowly. My friends are often out, so I have to send a letter to ask if they are in Bellagio. It will take some time to wait for their reply."

Mason looked up at the sky and continued.

"It looks like we can't continue our journey today. We have to find a place to stay."

After the caravan left Sunset City, some of the small vendors and adventurers who followed the caravan left one after another, and some more joined along the way. Now there are only forty or fifty people left.

When Xie Wei used wood magic to stimulate the growth of pot leaves, he was noticed by some adventurers who did not bring rain gear. Some of them hesitated for a while, but finally made up their minds and ran for a distance to catch up with Xie Wei's horse.

Wiping the rain off his face, the tall, strong and rugged-looking adventurer used the gentlest tone he had ever used in his life.

"Hello, Mr. Magician, can you sell us a few leaves of this magic plant?"

The heavy rain will not stop for a while. It will take more than two hours to walk to the nearest village. It is not a pleasant feeling to be drenched in the rain all the time.

Experienced adventurers know that rain can make people sick, and if conditions permit, it is best to avoid prolonged contact with rain.

Xie Wei lowered his eyes and looked at the adventurers gathered near him, then said in a gentle voice: "Two copper coins per piece, but not as big as mine."

"Okay, okay, I want three pieces. Here are 6 copper coins, please keep them." The adventurer, who had thought he would be ignored, was ready to say a few more nice words.

He didn't expect to meet such an easy-to-talk magician, nor did he expect the other party to only ask for two copper coins.

After quickly pulling a copper coin from his pocket and handing it to the magician, the adventurer took the three pot leaves that the magician had instantly created and distributed them to his teammates before muttering something under his breath.

"I don't think I heard the magician chanting..."

But he was only puzzled for a moment and then put the question behind him.

After the first adventurer who succeeded in buying the pot leaves, the adventurers without rain gear gathered around Xie Wei. They were noisy at first, but when they heard the magician say that they had to line up one by one or he would not sell them, they all lined up obediently.

Xie Wei sold more than a dozen pieces of pot leaves to adventurers, and a few pieces to small vendors who came to join in the fun. In the end, he made a total of 42 copper coins.

After following the Colosseum's convoy to the nearest village to spend the night, Xie Wei used the 42 copper coins to buy some dried meat and eggs from a small vendor, and also hired a particularly clever little boy in the village.

He asked the little boy to bring dried meat and eggs to Sal, who had taken off his hood and was sitting in the iron cage, eating dry biscuits in the rain, and tried to talk to him.

The boy named Leo often earns copper coins from adventurers, but this is the first time he has received such a strange task.

Deliver food to the slaves in the Colosseum and chat with them, but don't tell others who asked him to do so.

The eight-year-old Leo, carrying dried meat and eggs, wearing a sheepskin cloak made by his mother and a wide-brimmed straw hat, walked to the cage where the Palazzo children were held under the watchful eyes of the Colosseum guards who were warming themselves by a fire under a straw shed.

The children in the village like to look at the monsters and slaves in the cages. The guards don't stop them, but just remind them not to get too close and then leave them alone.

Leo stood one meter away from the cage. He looked at the Paraso child in chains licking his palms in the rain and felt a little strange.

The animal trainer who was drinking and eating meat in the hotel said that the Parasau people were terrible and more difficult to tame than wild beasts.

But what he saw now, the person locked in the cage, was clearly just a child younger than him.

He was still a skinny kid.